Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy - A Study in the Semantics of Only and its Interaction with Gradable Antonyms

This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or “evaluative”) gradable terms. The book thus provides new data and a new theoretical view of the semantic properties of 'only', and connects it to the semantics of gradable expressions.